Larry Page is 38 years old born on March 26, 1973 and is from the town of East Lansing, Michigan. He got his bachelor of Arts/Science at the University of Michigan and his master of science at Stanford University. Larry Page is most known as the co-founder of Google having created it in 1998 along with Sergey Brin. Larry Page also stands as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Google along with being on the board of directors having been co-founder. He is responsible for the day-to-day features and operations on Google.
Interesting Facts
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
His parents were both computer experts
He first met Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, at Stanford University while he was studing there.
They named their search engine Google after then mathematical term “Googol” which was 1 followed by 100 zeros. They reason they did this because Google comes up with an extreme amount of information that is available on the internet.
In 2006 Google purchases YouTube, a web-site created for user submitted streaming videos.
Achievements
He is #15 on the Forbes 400 list with a net worth of 16.7 billion.
He is also #30 on the world's most powerful people list.
He is a member of the national advisory committee for the University of Michigan College for Engineering.
In 2002 he was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow.
In 2004 he was honored with the Marconi prize and was elected into the National Academy of Engineering.
Quotes
“Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”
“The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.”
“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.”
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Larry Page is 38 years old born on March 26, 1973 and is from the town of East Lansing, Michigan. He got his bachelor of Arts/Science at the University of Michigan and his master of science at Stanford University. Larry Page is most known as the co-founder of Google having created it in 1998 along with Sergey Brin. Larry Page also stands as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Google along with being on the board of directors having been co-founder. He is responsible for the day-to-day features and operations on Google.
Interesting Facts
Achievements
Quotes
“Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”
“The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.”
“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.”
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" Management team â Company ." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2011.
<http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/execs.html>.
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